Honouring the dead, military style

Today, North Americans find death rather than sex a matter of slightly embarrassed discomfort

WASHIINGTON, D.C.– "...That there is some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England..."–Memorial for Rupert Brooke. For millennia, combat casualties were buried where they died. Enemy dead were stripped of anything of value (including trophy body parts) and tossed into a ...

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